Christopher Willits

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Comet 06:14 Tools
Colors Shifting 05:15 Tools
Words 00:00 Tools
GROUND 00:00 Tools
Coast 00:00 Tools
CLEAR 00:00 Tools
Reticent Reminiscence 00:00 Tools
Orange Lit Spaces 03:56 Tools
Clear (Boreta Remix) 00:00 Tools
Sun Body 00:00 Tools
Medium Blue 00:00 Tools
Green and Gold 00:00 Tools
VISION 00:00 Tools
Yellow Spring 00:00 Tools
The Greatest Rain 00:00 Tools
Saturn 00:00 Tools
Finding Ground 00:00 Tools
Love Wind 00:00 Tools
WIDE 00:00 Tools
Portal 00:00 Tools
Intend-Evolve 00:00 Tools
Like Water 00:00 Tools
Now 00:00 Tools
Dive 00:00 Tools
Abandoned Silence 00:00 Tools
Flowers Into Stardust 00:00 Tools
Connect 00:00 Tools
Green Faces 00:00 Tools
Sunlight Is You 00:00 Tools
Release 00:00 Tools
Uplifting The Streets 00:00 Tools
I Don't Want to Understand 00:00 Tools
New Life 00:00 Tools
Releasing 00:00 Tools
Plant Body 00:00 Tools
Light Into Branches 00:00 Tools
Return 00:00 Tools
Completion 00:00 Tools
The Hands Connect To The Heart 00:00 Tools
Levitation 00:00 Tools
Light and Dark 00:00 Tools
The Heart Connects To The Head 00:00 Tools
You Are Always Surrounded By Stars 00:00 Tools
Pacific 1 00:00 Tools
Subconscious Transmission 00:00 Tools
Branches Into Flowers 00:00 Tools
Breathe (Fountain) 00:00 Tools
Simplicity 00:00 Tools
Olancha Hello 00:00 Tools
Scrims 00:00 Tools
Ama 00:00 Tools
Rising 00:00 Tools
Fountain 00:00 Tools
Mesh, Then 00:00 Tools
Two 00:00 Tools
Colors Shifting (The Dead Texan Color Shifter) 00:00 Tools
limnanthes 00:00 Tools
Waipio 00:00 Tools
Rotation 00:00 Tools
...makes shadows the shape of half moons 00:00 Tools
Or With The Tea. 00:00 Tools
Plants and Hearts 00:00 Tools
Orange Lit Spaces (electricwest remix) 00:00 Tools
Re Trace. 00:00 Tools
flora 00:00 Tools
Or With the Tea 00:00 Tools
Lichen 00:00 Tools
Pacific 2 00:00 Tools
Evergreen 00:00 Tools
Poa 00:00 Tools
Nucleus 00:00 Tools
Pacific 3 00:00 Tools
Pentagonal 00:00 Tools
Toward Water 00:00 Tools
Metroid, A.k.a. the Lovers of Samus Aran 00:00 Tools
Lichen. 00:00 Tools
Transpire 00:00 Tools
touch me and i end up singing 00:00 Tools
The Fall in Love Machine 00:00 Tools
the_size_and_shape 00:00 Tools
Filtered Light 00:00 Tools
Dopa 00:00 Tools
Pentagonal. 00:00 Tools
Plane 00:00 Tools
The Seaweed Machine 00:00 Tools
Flown 00:00 Tools
Order (No Blueprint). 00:00 Tools
Umi 00:00 Tools
Poa. 00:00 Tools
The Baroque Machine 00:00 Tools
Constraints Generating 00:00 Tools
Stomata 00:00 Tools
Champagne and Soda 00:00 Tools
Free Singing Strawberries For Children. 00:00 Tools
Fold, Refold, Folding Again 00:00 Tools
Filtered Light, 00:00 Tools
Winding 00:00 Tools
Making 00:00 Tools
Cold Heat 00:00 Tools
No_Gasoline... 00:00 Tools
Sps 00:00 Tools
Sea Plains 00:00 Tools
Becomes_Territory 00:00 Tools
Dopa. 00:00 Tools
Tonal 00:00 Tools
Surfacing 00:00 Tools
Fountain [Breathe (In 7 Sections)] 00:00 Tools
The Weight Of Your Body On Top Of Me Makes Me Feel Like I'm Floating And Sinking. 00:00 Tools
Constraints Generating, 00:00 Tools
Eme 00:00 Tools
Fold, Refold, Folding Again. 00:00 Tools
Sentience 00:00 Tools
Beginning 00:00 Tools
Free Singing Strawberries for Children 00:00 Tools
Four 00:00 Tools
Chi-Yu 00:00 Tools
The Yellow Sprout Machine 00:00 Tools
The Kotekan Machine 00:00 Tools
Blue and Coral 00:00 Tools
With Homemade Rockets 00:00 Tools
order (no blueprint) 00:00 Tools
Ocean Sky Remains 00:00 Tools
Wind Powered 00:00 Tools
Yellow (Robert Lippok remix) 00:00 Tools
Floating.. 00:00 Tools
The Weight of Your Body on Top of Me Makes Me Feel Like I'm Floating and Sinking 00:00 Tools
I Am Loving Awareness (Christopher Willits Rework) 00:00 Tools
The Roller Skating In San Francisco Machine 00:00 Tools
Flown [Breathe (In 7 Sections)] 00:00 Tools
Floating.. [Breathe (In 7 Sections)] 00:00 Tools
Gold 00:00 Tools
With Homemade Rockets [Breathe (In 7 Sections)] 00:00 Tools
Retrace 00:00 Tools
Touch Me And I End Up Singing [Breathe (In 7 Sections)] 00:00 Tools
...makes shadow the shape of half moons 00:00 Tools
Floating 00:00 Tools
Cloud Lift (live) - Foshan, China - June 28, 2008 00:00 Tools
Blue And Coral [Breathe (In 7 Sections)] 00:00 Tools
untitled 00:00 Tools
Scrims. 00:00 Tools
Stars and Plants (live) 00:00 Tools
your face looks like a 15th century turkish carpet 00:00 Tools
the weight of your on top of me~~ 00:00 Tools
Colors Shifting - The Dead Texan Color Shifter 00:00 Tools
Chris WIllits - Sun Body 00:00 Tools
Cloud Lift (live): Foshan, China, June 28, 2008 00:00 Tools
Improvisation (live) - Berlin, Germany - June 19, 2009 00:00 Tools
Passage (live) - Philadelphia, PA - April 3, 2008 00:00 Tools
Sun Body (The Sight Below remix) 00:00 Tools
03 Improvisation (live) - Tokyo, Japan - June 30, 2006 00:00 Tools
wind powered, 00:00 Tools
06 Orange Lit Spaces (live) - Chicago, IL - April 26, 2008 00:00 Tools
Clouds Form 00:00 Tools
Wind_Powered, 00:00 Tools
05 Golden Yarrow Center (live) - Bangkok, Thailand - July 5th, 2008 00:00 Tools
07 Stars and Plants (live) - Kyoto, Japan - June 19, 2008 00:00 Tools
Light Into Branches (Robert Lippok Remix) 00:00 Tools
Sun Body (Kid Smpl Remix) 00:00 Tools
Portal (Celer Remix) 00:00 Tools
baroque machine (seven machines for summer) 00:00 Tools
Beams (live) - Dresden - June 14th, 2009 00:00 Tools
Stars and Plants (live) - Kyoto, Japan - June 19, 2008 00:00 Tools
Beams (live) - Vienna - June 11th, 2009 00:00 Tools
…makes shadows the shape of half moons. 00:00 Tools
The Roller Skating in S.F. Machine 00:00 Tools
Light Into Branches (Sun Glitters Remix) - We Found the Future Now 00:00 Tools
Beams (live) - Prague - June 12th, 2009 00:00 Tools
metroid, aka the lovers of samus aran 00:00 Tools
Golden Yarrow Center (live) - Bangkok, Thailand - July 5th, 2008 00:00 Tools
Living Flowers 00:00 Tools
Christopher Willits - Live in Tokyo 2010 00:00 Tools
Seasons Centers Studies 00:00 Tools
a4 00:00 Tools
Metroid a.k.a. The Lovers of Samus Aran 00:00 Tools
The Smell Of Public Libraries 00:00 Tools
10 dive 00:00 Tools
Exclusive "Live on Earth Vol. 1" Mix 00:00 Tools
Opening a1 00:00 Tools
baroque machine (seven machine 00:00 Tools
the weight of your body on top of me makes me feel like I´m floating and sinking 00:00 Tools
CHANPAGNE AND SODA 00:00 Tools
Colors Shifting (Vocals) 00:00 Tools
Breathe (in seven sections) 00:00 Tools
Metroid, (The Lovers Of Samus Aran) 00:00 Tools
Live on Earth Exclusive Mix 00:00 Tools
Grounding 00:00 Tools
Hybrid 00:00 Tools
Plane (Partial) 00:00 Tools
We found the future now (Sun Glitters Remix) 00:00 Tools
finding ground (edit) 00:00 Tools
Jasmine 00:00 Tools
Now (Alejandro Bento Cover) 00:00 Tools
Opening b1 00:00 Tools
free singing... 00:00 Tools
Marathon Vowel Shift 00:00 Tools
Become a Plant and Join the Circus 00:00 Tools
Suspended by Giant Balloons 00:00 Tools
Surfboundaries 00:00 Tools
Collider 00:00 Tools
Cherry 00:00 Tools
GOLD (Mix 1 0-17:40) 00:00 Tools
Opening a4 00:00 Tools
Seaweed Machine 00:00 Tools
CWillits_Colors_Shifting-excerpt 00:00 Tools
Bancha 00:00 Tools
Floating [clip] 00:00 Tools
... Makes Shadows The Shape Of 00:00 Tools
Colors Shifting (Electicwest Remix) 00:00 Tools
breathe (in seven sections) (e 00:00 Tools
Beams (Live in Vienna) - June 11, 2009 00:00 Tools
floating... 00:00 Tools
Clay 00:00 Tools
Ended 00:00 Tools
the weight of your body on top 00:00 Tools
The Roller Skating in San Francisco 00:00 Tools
Intend-Evolve (2010) 00:00 Tools
Untitled Street Plants (Live in Tokyo) 00:00 Tools
Colors Shifting (Electricwest remix) 00:00 Tools
Beams (Live in Dresden) - June 14, 2009 00:00 Tools
Golden Yarrow 00:00 Tools
05 - orange lit spaces 00:00 Tools
The Rollerskating in San Franc 00:00 Tools
Your Own Small Garden 00:00 Tools
The Clouds Breathe for You 00:00 Tools
"Saturn": Nobuko Hori 00:00 Tools
Beams (Live in Prague) - June 12, 2009 00:00 Tools
Branches Into Flowers (Simon Scott Remix) - 1 00:00 Tools
Listening Garden (1) 00:00 Tools
Newspaper 00:00 Tools
Portal (Natasha Kmeto Remix) 00:00 Tools
Listening Garden (2) 00:00 Tools
Subconcious Transmission 00:00 Tools
Christopher Willits, 'Lights Into Branches' 00:00 Tools
touch me and i end up singing. 00:00 Tools
Sun Body (Lamont Kohner Remix) 00:00 Tools
Simple Sleep 00:00 Tools
Bloom 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Christina Vantzou Remix) 00:00 Tools
Hiding Milk 00:00 Tools
Live at OVERLAP 01 00:00 Tools
Colors Shifting - Christopher Willits 00:00 Tools
drifting below the oak and redwood trees 00:00 Tools
Untitled Water One (Live in Tokyo) 00:00 Tools
Unplifting the Streets 00:00 Tools
Colours Shifting 00:00 Tools
Wind-Powered 00:00 Tools
Listening Garden (4) 00:00 Tools
touch me and i end up singing - Christopher Willits 00:00 Tools
07 - saturn 00:00 Tools
12 - the greatest rain 00:00 Tools
Morning Mochi 00:00 Tools
Sunbody (White Palms Remix) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 8 00:00 Tools
Little Edo 00:00 Tools
Sun Body (Roma 79 Remix) 00:00 Tools
Metroid (aka The Lovers of Samus Aran) 00:00 Tools
Chris McNamara Remix 00:00 Tools
02 Sun Body 00:00 Tools
Sleepyhead 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Leonardo Rosado Remix) 00:00 Tools
GOLD (pre-release) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (V4W.Enko Remix) 00:00 Tools
Camo & Krooked - Portal 00:00 Tools
Fountain - Christopher Willits 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun - Rickmond Wong Remix 00:00 Tools
10 - dive 00:00 Tools
Green Faces (.mute remix) 00:00 Tools
Intend-Evolve (Go Dugong Remix) 00:00 Tools
Untitled Water 2 (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
Sunlight is You (Radere Remix) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Pinkcourtesyphone Remix) - Reflected Body 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Big Phone Remix) 00:00 Tools
Breathe 00:00 Tools
Branches Into Flowers (Simon Scott Remix) 00:00 Tools
We Found the Future Now [Sun Glitters Remix] 00:00 Tools
Untitled 7 00:00 Tools
Untitled 6 00:00 Tools
Untitled 5 00:00 Tools
Listening Garden (3) 00:00 Tools
050912/0 (Christopher Willits Remix) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (MimiCof Remix) - Internal Plants 00:00 Tools
Light Into Branches (Spies On Bikes Remix) 00:00 Tools
Intend Evolve (Go Dugong Remix) 00:00 Tools
06 Plant Body 00:00 Tools
Green Faces (M-Pill Remix) [Overlap.org] 00:00 Tools
Drifting Below The Oak And Redwood Trees... 00:00 Tools
Grounding - Christopher Willits and Taylor Deupree 00:00 Tools
- Plane -- Airport Symphony (2007) -- 00:00 Tools
[untitled] 00:00 Tools
the weight of your body on top of me makes me feel like Iґm floating and sinking 00:00 Tools
Or With Tea 00:00 Tools
Metroid (The Lovers of Samus Aran) 00:00 Tools
The Weight Ofr Your Body On Top Of Me Makes Me Feel Like I'm Floating And Sinking 00:00 Tools
untitled 2 00:00 Tools
Untitled Focus (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
Untitled Volcano Pattern (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
Untitled Water 1 (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
Flowers Into Stardust (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
baroque machine 00:00 Tools
Untitled Ferns (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
Subconscious Transmission (Live in Tokyo Nov 19, 2011) 00:00 Tools
The Hands Connect to the Heart (Kodacrome Remix) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 9 00:00 Tools
the fall in love machine (exce 00:00 Tools
your face... (excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Branches Into Flowers (Simon Scott Remix) - 2 00:00 Tools
Breathe (in 7 sections) 00:00 Tools
Big Bang/New Flora (RED) 00:00 Tools
05 Uplifting The Streets 00:00 Tools
longship 00:00 Tools
08 The Hands Connect To The Heart 00:00 Tools
We Are All Surrounded by Stars (Ersha Remix) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Beat Rossmy Remix) 00:00 Tools
Intend Evolve 00:00 Tools
live in japan, 2004 00:00 Tools
03 Sunlight Is You 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Cue Remix) 00:00 Tools
Sun Body (Tom Fitzpatrick Remix) 00:00 Tools
Flowers Into Stardust (Lamont Kohner remix) 00:00 Tools
07 New Life 00:00 Tools
04 Green Faces 00:00 Tools
New Life (c.z Remix) 00:00 Tools
Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Cass. Remix) 00:00 Tools
Sun Body (Sun Hammer Remix) 00:00 Tools
Mesh, Then Retrace 00:00 Tools
yellow spring - christopher willits 00:00 Tools
Your Face Looks Like a 15th Century Turkish Carpet - Christopher Willits 00:00 Tools
Champagne and Soda - Christopher Willits 00:00 Tools
the weight of your on top of m 00:00 Tools
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Christopher Willits is an artist- a musician, guitarist, producer, photographer, filmmaker, all-in-one. Willits occupies a unique corner of the electronic-art-music universe—hovering above the intersection of electronic production’s nuts and bolts, new media art, and a wide-open creative mind. “i am a conduit of the process, a kind of gardener,” he says. “I simply imagine, intuit, respond and do the work laid before me.” Willits’ tireless responding and doing and working has produced 20 albums in 10 years—solo and in collaboration with artists including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matmos, Zach Hill, and Taylor Deupree—and an organic, multi-faceted sound that expands like the vines of an electro-acoustic kudzu plant. Christopher Willits is a teacher, a label owner (the experimental hub Overlap.org), a meditator, a tech geek, a visual/new media artist, and virtuosic musician in one. In other words, there’s no one out there quite like him. Willits designs much of his own software, and his music is a holistic universe in which all elements are interconnected; he folds his guitar lines into bleary, unrecognizable shapes and polyrhythmic textures, adding strokes of percussion, horns, and his own voice until the whole glows with an earthly inner light. A full list of Christopher Willits’ releases and accomplishments would take up considerable column space, but a beginner’s guide to Willits includes 2002’s Folding, and the Tea (his watery 12k debut), 2006’s landmark Surf Boundaries (his first full-length record on Ghostly International), 2008’s Ocean Fire (Willits’ collaboration with renowned pianist / composer Ryuichi Sakamoto), and 2009’s Live on Earth Vols. 1 & 2 (a pair of self-released live albums dedicated to his fans and supporters). -- Willits has been instrumental in redefining the guitar in the digital age. Using custom-built software, Willits morphs melodic guitar loops and photo/video experiments into folded rhythms of harmony, memory, color and texture. Named “the center cell of a complex indie rock-avant-garde-electronic art Venn diagram in the Bay Area” (San Francisco Bay Guardian), and “The Picasso of Sound” (Tokafi Magazine), Willits defies genre distinctions while still defining a sound and style of his own. His guitar lines fold and weave into each other creating complex patterns of interlocking rhythm, melody, and texture. Every project sees him evolving and expanding his creative vision. In addition to his solo work, Willits has created a vast range of music collaborations, sound installations, and film/video projects. His band project Flossin involves Zach Hill, Kid606, and Matmos, The North Valley Subconscious Orchestra is Willits and Brad Laner, formerly of Medicine. Other frequent collaborators include Scott Pagano, Taylor Deupree, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Willits' numerous releases and collaborative projects cover a broad spectrum of musical styles, and include one main commonality: Willits' love of pattern his unique approach to the guitar and sound + light. Willits completed his Master's Degree in Electronic Music at Mills College where he studied with Pauline Oliveros and Fred Frith. At Mills he explored structure-generating processes in music; a focus not unfamiliar to former Mills affiliates John Cage and Steve Reich. Prior to Mills, Willits focused on painting, video art, sound art and music at the Kansas City Art Institute. In addition to all of this, Willits is a director at Sound Arts in San Francisco and Founder / Director of the experimental media label Overlap.org . Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.